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Category Archives: History

November 24 2011

Happy Birthday Dwight Schultz-64 Denise Crosby-54 Garret Dillahunt-47 Colin Hanks-34 Katherine Heigl-33 ; 1859 Origin of Species(Darwin) published.

November 23 2011

Happy Birthday Steve Landesberg-67 Bruce Vilanch-64 Bruce Hornsby-57 Miley Cyrus-19 ; 1889 The jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

November 22 2011

Happy Birthday Robert Vaughn-79 Billie Jean King-68 Jamie Lee Curtis-53 Mariel Hemingway-50 Boris Becker-44 Mark Ruffalo-44.; 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.

November 21 2011

Happy Birthday Stan Musial-91 Marlo Thomas-74 Harold Ramis-67 Goldie Hawn-66 Lorna Luft-59 Nicollette Sheridan 48 Björk Guðmundsdóttir-46

November 20 2011

Happy Birthday Richard Dawson-79 Dick Smothers-73 Joe Biden-69 Veronica Hamel-68 Joe Walsh-64 Bo Derek-55 ; 1985 The first version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.

November 19 2011

Happy Birthday Larry King-78 Dick Cavett-75 Ted Turner-73 Calvin Klein-69 Meg Ryan-50 Jodie Foster-49 ; 1959 Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel.

November 18 2011

Happy Birthday Brenda Vaccaro-72 Linda Evans-69 Kevin Nealon-58 Kim Wilde-51 Owen Wilson-43 Chloe Sevigny-37 ; 1883 The United States and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.

November 17 2011

Happy Birthday Gordon Lightfoot-73 Martin Scorsese-69 Lauren Hutton-68 Danny DeVito-67 RuPaul Charles-51 Isaac Hanson-31 ; 1962 Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., was dedicated.

November 16 2011

Happy Birthday David Leisure-61 Diana Krall-47 Lisa Bonet-44 Martha Plimpton-41 Maggie Gyllenhaal-34 ; 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.